Collective Participation Impacts Social Identity::A Longitudinal Study with Control Data

How does participation in collective activity affect our social identifications and behavior? We investigate this question in a longitudinal questionnaire study conducted at one of the world’s largest collective events – the Magh Mela (a month-long Hindu religious festival in north India). Data gathered from pilgrims and comparable others who did not attend the event show that one month after this mass gathering was over, those who had participated (but not controls) exhibited a heightened social identification as Hindu and increased levels of religious activity (e.g., performing prayer rituals). Additional data gathered from the pilgrim respondents during the festival show that the pilgrims’ perceptions of sharing a common identity with other pilgrims, and of being able to enact their social identity in this event, predicted these outcomes.

History and Salvation in Lebor na hUidre

This chapter argues that the scribes of Lebor na hUidre show a persistent concern with eschatology, and in particular with the salvation of souls and the Last Judgement. In some cases the texts are overtly religious, but in a substantial number of cases they are explicitly or implicitly historical. The pivotal event is the mission of St Patrick, which is identified in several of the texts examined here as the origin of Christianity in Ireland. Pagans are repeatedly brought into contact with Christians/saints or other representatives of God, revealing the victory of Christianity and the subjugation of paganism. It is argued that the stories are to be placed within the medieval western theory of history according to which God’s plan for humanity was revealed through a study of the events of the past.

Lost in Transition? Emerging forms of residential architecture in Kathmandu

Kathmandu has been the last few cities in the world which retained its medieval urban culture up until twentieth century. Various Hindu and Buddhist religious practices shaped the arrangement of houses, roads and urban spaces giving the city a distinctive physical form, character and a unique oriental nativeness. In recent decades, the urban culture of the city has been changing with the forces of urbanisation and globalisation and the demand for new buildings and spaces. New residential design is increasingly dominated by distinctive patterns of Western suburban ideal comprising detached or semi-detached homes and high rise tower blocks. This architectural iconoclasm can be construed as a rather crude response to the indigenous spaces and builtform. The paper attempts to dismantle the current tension between traditional and contemporary 'culture' (and hence society) and housing (or builtform) in Kathmandu by engaging in a discussion that cuts across space, time and meaning of building. The paper concludes that residential architecture in Kathmandu today stands disoriented and lost in the transition.

Somewhere near reality: artistic portrayal of violence in post WWII British realistic drama

ABSTRACT - I will explore and present the portrayal of violence in some British plays that were staged between 1951 and 1965, in order to discuss the role, impact and aim of its representation. Thus, I will consider John Whiting’s Saint’s Day (1951), Ann Jelicoe’s The Sport of my Mad Mother (1956), Arnold Wesker (Chicken Soup with Barley (1958), Harold Pinter’s Birthday Party (1958), David Rudkin’s Afore Night Come (1962) and Edward Bond’s Saved (1965). My aim is to discuss the way how theatre in the post WWII changed the traditional ways of representing violence. On one hand, violence and reality became more and more familiar and domestic, permitting a representation of multiple and non-agonic violence; and, on the other hand, the violence that was depicted often changed the way one perceived reality itself, being part of a socially engaged artistic attitude.

Da Quinta da Holandesa ao Bairro do Armador: realojamento, integração ou ambos para a comunidade indiana?

Esta dissertação é um percurso de descoberta e de reflexão em torno da comunidade hindu residente no bairro do Armador, em Lisboa. O trabalho faz a apresentação das problemáticas do realojamento e da integração num bairro social, aplicando esses conceitos à comunidade hindu. Traçamos o percurso desta comunidade até ter chegado ao Bairro do Armador, apresentando de forma breve o que foi a Quinta da Holandesa e o que representou o realojamento na vida destes hinduss, alguns já de segunda e terceira geração. Analisamos o material recolhido no terreno, junto das pessoas que entrevistámos, para compreender melhor as dinâmicas de interação que conduzem (ou não) à integração de uma comunidade num espaço, lançando pistas de reflexão em torno das problemáticas, com a visão do bairro sobre esta comunidade e da comunidade sobre o bairro.

La Terre sainte (1875)

Périodicité : Bimens

Missale Trecense.

F. I. Calendrier de Troyes. P. 1. Temporal. P. 393. Dédicace. P. 395. Ordo missae, préface, canon. P. 435-610. Sanctoral : — s. Prudence (488) ; — sa Mastidia (500) ; — s. Loup (536) ; — s. Aderaldus (594). P. 610. Commun des saints. P. 657. Messes votives et diverses. P. 715. Proses. P. 747. Kyriale.

Lectionarium officii ad usum ecclesiae Parisiensis.

F. 1 Temporal. F. 124 S. Thomas de Cantorbéry. F. 128v Sanctoral (ste Geneviève). F. 187v Commun des saints (incompl. de la fin).

Diurnale ad usum ecclesiae Parisiensis.

F. 1 Absolutiones et benedictiones. F. 4v Preces. F. 14 Orationes communes ad suffragia. F. 19-50v Capitula propria : — Susceptio reliquiarum (37v), Sanctae Coronae (46), Sanctae Crucis (46v) ; — s. Louis (47) ; — s. Denis (49) ; — s. Marcel (50v). F. 51 Capitula communia sanctorum. F. 56 Oraisons du temporal. F. 81-116 Oraisons du sanctoral : — s. Lambert (106) ; — « In Vig. s. Dyonisii... ad processionem... ad ecclesiam Sancti Dyonisii de Passu » (108v). F. 116 Commun des saints. F. 122 Fragment relatif aux complies pour quelques fêtes. F. 123 Litanies de Paris et oraisons. F. 132 Offices des morts (incompl.).

Lectionarium officii ad usum ecclesiae Arelatensis.

F. 1-4v Noël (incompl. du début) : — Vers sibyllins (3v). F. 5 Fragment de l'office de s. Étienne. F. 7v S. Trophime (Gazay, dans Ann. du Midi, 1935, 227-229, d'après ce ms.). F. 127v S. Geniez. F. 147v S. André. F. 149v Dédicace. F. 151-153v et 162-171v Commun des saints. F. 154-161 Du 2e au 6e dim. après la Pentecôte. F. 172-174v Vita s. Marii, Badonensis abbatis (XIIIe s.). F. 174v Lectiones ad honorem... b. V. Mariae (XIIIe s.). F. 175v Kyrie des laudes de la Semaine sainte (XIIIe s.). F. 176v S. Césaire. Cf. Cavallin, Literarhist. Stud. (Lund, 1934), 126. F. 178 Dom. VII post Pent. F. 205v Dom. II mensis novembris (incompl. de la fin). Pour les vies de saints, cf. Cod. hag., III, 523.

Breviarium Catalaunense, pars aestivalis.

F. 1 Calendrier de Châlons-sur-Marne, avec additions : « Dedic. ecclesie s. Nichasii Cathalaunensis » (10 juin) ; — « Sancti Stephani Cathalaunensis » (26 oct.). F. 4 Chants de l'invitatoire. F. 8 Temporal d'été, depuis « Sabbato sancto Pasche ». F. 140-141 et 272-291v Commun des saints. F. 141-272 Sanctoral d'été ; — s. Memme (176v) ; — s. Élafe (198) ; — s. Alpin (207) ; — s. Lumier (228) ; — s. Louvent (241v). F. 298 Fête-Dieu.

Missale benedictinum ad usum Trecensem.

F. 1v et 16v Ordinaire de la messe. F. 7 Vers relatifs à l'évangéliaire offert à la cathédrale de Troyes par l'évêque Prudence (M. G., Poet. lat., II, 679). F. 9 Oraisons et préface de la messe de s. Frobert, abbé de Montier-la-Celle (fin XIe s.). F. 9v Calendrier-martyrologe avec éléments troyens. F. 15v Table de comput. F. 24-58 et 81-91 Temporal (incompl. du début) : « Ypapanti » (24) ; — « Dom. oct. Pent. » (85v) ; — « Sabbato in XII lectiones » (89v). F. 91v-96v 58v-81 et 97-124. Sanctoral : sa Eufemia (91v) ; — sa Mastidia (addit. marg. XIIIe s.) (96) ; — s. Theobaldus (addit. marg. XIIIe s.) (67) ; — Vig. et Translatio s. Benedicti (68v) ; — Oct. s. Andreae (123v). F. 124 Préfaces. F. 128 Commun des saints. F. 132 Messes votives. F. 135v Épîtres et évangiles du commun. F. 146v Oraisons diverses. F. 159v Messes diverses. F. 176v Ordo ad visitandum infirmum, etc. F. 188 Messe des morts. F. 194bis Bénédictions et prières. F. 204 « Compotus Graecorum sive Latinorum ». F. 205v « Missa de Sancto Sepulcro » (XIe s.). F. 206 « Transfiguratio Christi » (XIe s.). F. 252 Dom. XXVI post Pent. F. 254 Dom. V ante Nat. Domini (incompl. de la fin). F. 255-256 Fragment d'un compte de Thibaut de Champagne (1258-1259). (Bourquelot, dans Bibl. Éc. Ch., XXIV, 1863, 69-79.)

Missale Parisiense.

F. 1 Calendrier de Paris. F. 7-119, 130v-207 Temporal. F. 119-130v Ordo missae. F. 207v Fête-Dieu (XIVe s.). F. 211 Sanctoral. F. 256v Commun des saints. F. 282v Missae familiares. F. 294v Bénédictions. F. 295v Kyriale. F. 301 Proses. F. 365 Messes diverses (XIIIe-XVe s.).

Missale Sancti Amandi in Pabula.

F. 1 Calendrier de Saint-Amand (avril et mai manquent). F. 6v Messe de s. Hubert (XVe s.). F. 7 Bénédictions (XVe-XVIe s.). F. 9 Messes votives. F. 25 Ordo missae. F. 29v Temporal. F. 115v-174 Sanctoral : Depositio s. Benedicti (115v) ; — s. Piat (154) ; — Dédicace (157) ; — s. Amand (171v) ; — Messes de saints divers (173v). F. 174 Commun des saints.